Children's Hour: Tamsin Asks About Closing

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0024
ORIGIN Children's Hour · Tiered Wards, Ward Four
CLASS Children's Hour
DECODED Desk day 24
CONFIDENCE High

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—and that's how twelve becomes one-and-twelve, which is why the Ledger never runs out of room. Any questions before the song?

[A pause.]

TAMSIN: What happens to the gifts when a keeper closes?

TEACHER MARRE: The gifts stay. They've been entered. Closing doesn't un-enter anything.

TAMSIN: But the keeper is gone from the Count.

TEACHER MARRE: That's right.

TAMSIN: So the gifts are in the Ledger but the keeper isn't in the Count.

TEACHER MARRE: That is also right.

TAMSIN: Where are they, then?

[Eleven seconds.]

TEACHER MARRE: That's a very good question, Tamsin. We'll put it in the box.

TAMSIN: You put my last question in the box.

TEACHER MARRE: Yes. The box is filling up nicely. Now. The song. Everyone together, from the first line—

[carrier noise]

—and a gift that is entered is entered forever, which is the whole of it, which is enough. Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: The box has now received two questions from the same child.

SIGNAL-1 is fiction, decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.